The Dickinson press., 1887-12-24
THE NEWS IN PARAeRAPH9j

THE NEWS IN PARAe RAPH9.
Interesting Items Briefly chronieisd
For Our Readers.
The cfgarmakers' strike at Havana hss
sAded, and work resumed in all tie fee-
tories.
The Northern Pacific took the frst
freight shipments for San Francisco. All
rail- Wednesday.
The Lake Shore g. Michigan Southern
has put on q vesdbulsd train between
New York and Chicago.
Fifteen car loads Of bolts and heavy iron
have been used in the ore docks extension
this year at Two Harbors.
The chief of police at Duluth hes noti-
ned all gamblers that they must 20, and
all gaming institutions to close up.
Fourteen thousand three hundred dol
lars has been spent this year at Sioux
Falls upon the electric light plant and re-
pairs.
A fish hatchery costing $40, 600, hatch.
ing $1,000 more fishes than any other
station on Lake Superior, is to be built
on Leister river.
Capt. NcDougaL has secured 1863 sign
ers, representing $40, 900, 0O0in capital, ask
ing the government for q better system
Of lights In the Duluth harbor.
The work of laying the cable for the st.
Paul cable line began Wednesday.
Run.ored that the headquarters Of the
Milwaukee road will be removed from
Milwaukee to Chicago.
, During the year of 1887 the G. n. Mel.
son Lumber company's lumber out was
4s,00O,0 600 feet, against $4,000, 900 feet in
1856.
t Many Of the banks of Dakota are oharg-
Ing the farmers as high as 80 to 100 per
cent for money, but the better class Of
farmers arc prompt in meeting their OBJ
legations.
Thu safe In the express and postoffce
at Millstown, Wis, was broken open and
$3.50 in cash and stamps taken. The safe
in the town hall was also opened, but
nothing was found.
The Eagle, q labor paper, Is to be
started in New York as soon as 30, 900
subscribers have been obtained. The
promoters are socialists, Messrs. Sche-
veitch, Block and Bordello.
The Michigan State grange, in session
at Lansing, adopted a resolution in favor
of the local option law, and pledgfng the
members to ecu the prohibition Of the
liquor traffic in their several localities.
Fire at st. Augustine, Fla, destroyed
property valued at $200, 600; insurance,
se0,o0o.
The Manitoba has begun its survey of
the proposed extension from Sioux Falls
to Denver.
The first through train over the 500
road arrived at its destination at 4 O'Clock
Thursday afternoon.
Canadian Postmaster General McClel-
Ian is in Washington to arrange a parcel
post system between the two countries.
Thomas G. Voolfolk, who murdered
nino of his family at Macon, Ga, has
been sentenced to be hanged Feb. 10.
Congressman Nelson's efforts to have
lumber placed on the free list has aroused
the ire of the people in and around Brain
erd, MINI.
The last boat of the season arrived at
Duluth Friday and went into winter
quarters. She was the tug Rambler from
Port Arthur with fish.
Red Cloud, the Sioux chief, is to de-
liver a lecture at Centralia, III.
Mr.. David Shelby, NJ. p, has been sen
fenced to three months imprisonment at
hard labor.
An %incenGiary fire destroyed an entire
business block at Northwood, Iowa. Loss
about $4,000.
The Western Steel works at st. Louis,
will close Jan. I. Seventeen hundred
men will be thrown out of employment.
The Ruralist, IN agricultural paper
published at East Pierre, d. T., has been
made the official organ of the Farmers
alliance in Dakota.
Inc state veterin arian of Nebraska,
has been instructed to investigate a new
contagious disease which has made it's
appearance in q herd of horses near
North Platte.
Judge Moody has gone to Washington
to work on the Sioux reservation and
Dakota statehood matters.
The Grand Marais g. Vermilion Iron
and Land company, with a capital Of
$2O0,0O was Incorporated.
Railroad commissioners have requested
all the roads to come down to the North
ern Pacific's rate on agricultural nipple
ments.
The governments experiments with
new processes Of extracting juice from
sugar cane, show a net gain of 10 per
cent. over the other process.
The annual report of the state inspec-
tor shows that 1914, 800 barrels of salt
were inspected in Michigan during the
present year. There are 142 blocks and
1880 salt covers in the state, with an
estimated capacity Of 5,265, 900 barrels.
On account of taking off the regular
passenger trains at Benson, passengers
leaving ST. Paul ON the Manitoba for
Watertown or points between Benson and
Watertown at 1880 a. nj. or 1870 p. m.
will have to wait at Benson from the
time OF arrival till 8o'clock the following
morning.
The prospects are that the wheat crop
OF Texas in 1883 will be double that Of
the present year.
The ticket Office Of the Northern Pa
citic at Bismarck was burglarized and
over 800 stolen.
Forty-four thousand hogs arrived at
the Chicago stock yards, Wednesday,
causing q drop of Is to s5 cents per 100
pounds,
The E. W. Culver Lumber company, of
Kansas City, has sold to the Chippewa
Lumber and Boom company IS, 900, 900
feet of standing pine for $4,000.
The agent in this country Of the gov
eminent of Dutch Guiana is anxious that
that country should be included in Con-
gressman's Townshend's proposition to
establish an American zoliverein.
Han,naHI.A A6annnaonA